Blumenthal cited the prestigious Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA) for her numbers. But when the Post
checked, they found just eleven of 648 cases in a Denver emergency room
cited by JAMA. That’s 1.7 percent.

Why lie? Well, it protects the Democrats’ cash cows:

“Perhaps it is not so surprising, then, that Ron Fitzsimmons,
director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers admits that he
blatantly lied on a 1995 Nightline TV broadcast about the numbers of
partial birth abortions performed each year. Fitzsimmons said he did not
want to ‘stir up the pot’ when the issue was being debated on Capitol
Hill.” [Conservative Consensus, 5 March 1997 quoting theSeattle Post-Intelligencer, 27 February 1997, p. A5]

Such lying in a bureaucracy begins at the top, where it is
condoned: In a 21 March 1995 speech, President Clinton cited FBI
statistics that a woman is battered every 12 seconds. But the FBI does
not keep statistics on domestic violence. Most people would never check:
After all, if you can’t trust the president quoting the FBI, who can you
trust?

What happens as a result of these blatant lies? Public policy is set,
laws favorable to the liars are passed or retained, honest politicians
speaking the facts lose elections, and tax dollars are lavished on pet
projects that benefit the liars and their statist agenda. We the people
bear the brunt of the “policy” and pay the taxes that line the pockets
of the liars and their mouthpieces in the Democratic Party.

All right, so the administration routinely lies about sex, violence,
abortion and the FBI. We know that on the really important thing we in
America all agree about — money — the government would never lie,
right? That’s why I believe Clinton administration reports that in the
most recent economic quarter the American economy grew at an annual rate
of over six percent. And that’s true, even when The Economist notes
these concerns about deflation in the world:

“Oil prices have more than halved since the start of 1997; in the
past two years, The Economist’s index of industrial-commodity
prices has fallen by 30 percent. In real terms commodity prices are at
their lowest since this index was first published a century and a half
ago. …

“Producer prices have also fallen over the past 12 months in 14 of
the 15 rich industrial economies. … Consumer prices have fallen over
the past year in Switzerland, Sweden, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.
… In America, for example, the average price of goods has fallen over
the past year, but the prices of services have risen by 2.5 percent, to
produce an overall (measured) consumer-price inflation rate of 1.6
percent. … China has 40 percent excess capacity in manufacturing. [20
February 1999 p. 19]

“Now I want you to listen to me, America. …” wag — wag —
wag. “I did not short the U.S. stock market.”